How We Pick the 52 Places

How We Pick the 52 Places

Our annual list combines destinations that are aspirational, newly intriguing and perhaps threatened. Hereโ€™s how it is put together.

Sri Lanka’s Bomb Carnage Casts Pall Over Tourism Revival

With its capital under curfew following devastating Easter Sunday bomb attacks on churches and upmarket hotels, Sri Lanka is filled with fear, horror and grief and tourists who have been flocking to the Indian Ocean island could cancel in droves.